Saudi Arabia identifies attackers in 2 attacks this week

“TH remains confident that the Saudi government will direct all agencies involved in security to increase surveillance and monitoring to overcome threats posed by terrorists”. We stand in solidarity with the Muslim community at the time of aggrievance around the Islamic world.

“I know that terrorist operations are not a simple thing, and the minor impacts that you feel now will go away, God willing”, Prince Mohammed said, according to SPA.

He prayed for eternal peace of the killed people and early recovery of those injured.

Pakistan has condemned Monday’s attacks in the kingdom.

The attacks may have been to undermine the Saudi royal family, suggests Madhawi al-Rasheed, a visiting professor at the National University of Singapore’s Middle East Institute. In a tweet, the ministry said that Khan, a driver, had moved to Jeddah 12 years ago to live with his wife and her parents.

President Muhammadu Buhari has condemned the suicide bombing in Madinah, which occurred on Monday in Islam’s second holiest city. Five other officers were wounded, the statement added.

Hishammuddin, who had also performed the solat sunat tawaf at the Masjidil Haram in Mecca after the tawaf (circling the Kaabah), tweeted: “Today, my prayers are with everyone in Saudi Arabia”.

Riyadh broke off diplomatic relations with Tehran in January after protesters attacked its embassy in the Iranian capital and its consulate in second city Mashhad.

Near the Prophet’s Mosque, four people were killed in the Medina Explosion as Muslims are all set to the week of Eid al-Fitr festival.

The jihadist group has claimed or been blamed for a wave of shootings and bombings during the holy month this year, including in Orlando, Bangladesh, Istanbul and Baghdad.

The attack on the Prophet’s Mosque, where the Prophet Mohammed is buried, caused outrage across Islam’s religious divide.

Saudi Arabia’s supreme council of clerics said the blasts “prove that those renegades”.

Also on Tuesday, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein referred to the Medina bombing as “an attack on Islam itself”.

“The Islamic Emirate (Taliban) – which has been shocked by this gruesome act – condemns this incident in the strongest of terms and considers it an act of enmity and hatred towards Islamic rituals”, the militant group said in an emailed statement.